· Private foundation
David a Bramble Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k106 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT SCHOOL INC | $16,500 |
| RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| CHESTER RIVER HOSPITAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $5,280 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $5,080 |
| COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF A&D | $4,894 |
| MARS HILL UNIVERSITY | $4,659 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $4,656 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $4,000 |
| SALISBURY UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $4,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
142 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KSKENT SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +32%
- RHROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +111%
- CRChester River Hospital Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RHROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY CAP CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $10k
- USUNITED STATES MECHANT MARINE ACADEMone grant, 2023 · $4k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Marymount is a nationally ranked comprehensive catholic university, guided by the traditions of the religious of the sacred heart of mary, that emphasizes intellectual curiosity, service to others, and a global perspective. a marymount…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Kent County Wrestling Boosters Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 168 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Chester River Hospital Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND ASPHALT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · Friel Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · W Paul Starkey Foundation · Dock Street Foundation · Barbara L Thomas Foundation · Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable Foundation Inc · The Clifton Foundation Inc · The Salmon Foundation Inc · Gladwood Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David a Bramble Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kent Attainable Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Upper Shore Aging Inc — 24% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wilmington University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Chesterwye Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.